Lars Gustafsson

Filosofie Doktor (D.Phil): Theoretical Philosophy, Uppsala, 1978

Jamail Distinguished Professor Emeritus: Plan II, University of Texas at Austin

My Present Interests I do not know what is most important to me: my literary work (Death of a Beekeeper, Bernard Foy, The Afternoon of a Tiler, The Silence of the World before Bach) or my philosophical work. Sometimes I cannot see any sharp boundary between these fields and I tend to regard myself as a philosopher who has turned literature into one of his tools. Why write everything as papers, essays? Plato wrote dialogues and Lucretius wrote a poem. One of my old interests is in the Theory of Meaning. My doctoral dissertation (now available as a German paperback, Sprache und L ge [Fischer # 5405]) dealt with some philosophers who have a very low thought of language. I have more confidence in it. Myself I have a very high thought of its ability to transmit not only concepts but also experience and my interest in the theory of meaning has taken me into two directions which are closely connected with my literary work: Meaning in Poetry and Meaning in the Representational Arts. The Philosophy Graduate Seminar which I give this Spring Semester of 1997 (PHL 385) is a reflection of that interest. Another such reflection is my Plan II Senior Seminar, "What is a Poem ?" From the Theory of meaning in Language I have widened my forays into a wider and still more difficult field; the meaning of images. This has resulted in some essays but also in two interdisciplinary seminars offered in the Plan II Honors Program "The Art of Seeing" and "Painting in Theory and Reality." Another field which has interested me a lot in later years is Creativity as a Philosophical concept. Presently I am preparing an International Colloquium together with The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering (IVA) about "Art and Technology." It is one of my convictions that these fields have a common ground and that an analysis of artistic creativity has something important to tell us about technological creativity and vice versa. One result was the International Colloquium which professor John Weinstock and I arranged with support of the Excellence in Swedish Studies Endowment Spring 2000 "Swedish Inventions". `My literary work continues, at present pursuing two lines almost simultaneously, Prose and Poetry. My latest book of Poetry "En tid i Xanadu" was published spring 2002 in .

-Lars Gustafsson (ca. 2002)

CURRICULUM VITAE Lars Gustafsson

Education Filosofie Doktor (D.Phil): Theoretical Philosophy, Uppsala, 1978 Filosofie Licentiat, Uppsala, 1960 Sweden: Kings Scholarship to study with Professor Gilbert Ryle, Magdalene College, Oxford, 1957 Valedictorian, Västerås Gymnasium 1955

Academic Appointments Hayden W. Head Regents Professor in the Plan II Honors program 2002 Jamail Distinguished Professor in the Plan II Honors program 1998-2001 Aby Warburg Research professor, Warburg Stiftung, Hamburg, Fall 1997 Invited Fellow of the Berlin Institute of Advanced Studies, Fall 1995 (postponed) Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, 1995 Adjunct Professor of Germanic Studies University of Texas at Austin, 1982- Research Fellow, Bielefeld Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany, 1981- Writer and researcher, 1972 - 1982 DAAD Fellow Berlin, 1972-1973 Other Appointments: Bonniers Litterära Magasin, Stockholm Editor-in-Chief, 1965-1972 Associate Editor, 1960-1965

Awards and Prizes (Selection): The Pilot Prize (Sweden), 1996 Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy), 1996 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow of Poetry (USA), 1994 The Poetry Prize of Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, 1993 The Bellman prize of The Royal Swedish Academy, 1990 Una vita per la Litteratura (Italy), 1989 Signe Eklundh-Elds Pris (Royal Swedish Academy), 1988 Heinrich Steffens Preis (Germany), 1986 Prix International Charles Veillon des Essais, 1983 Carl Emil-Englundpriset, 1980 The Swedish Novel Prize, 1979 Aftonbladets Pris, 1961 Svenska Dagbladets Pris, 1960 Honors Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), 1986 Kommendör des Bundesverdienstzeichens (Germany), 1988 Elected Member in Academies Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz,1971 Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1974 The Royal Swedish Academy of Enginering Akademie der Schönen K nste, Munich 2000

Secondary Literature on Lars Gustafsson: Rupprecht Volz, ed. Gustafsson Lesen. Munich: Carl Hanser, 1986 Thomas Nydahl, ed. Underden synliga skriften. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 1996 . Hugging the Shore. New York, 1983: pp. 539-543 Harold Bloom. The Western Canon. New York, 1994: p. 557

Publications Language code for translations: E=English, G=German, F=French, I=Italian, Sp=Spanish, P=Portuguese, N=Norwegian, D=Danish, Fi=Finnish, Po=Polish, H=Hungarian, H=Hebrew, Gr=Greek, J=Japanese, Du=Dutch. If not otherwise noted, the year of first editions in the original language.

FICTION AND POETRY En tid i Xanadu. poems 2002 Blom och den andra magentan 2001 Windy ber ttar 1999 Tjänarinnan, Fall 1996 Stenkista, 1994 Ett minnespalats, 1994 [G] Historien med hunden, 1993 [F, G, I, S (E in preparation)] Där alfabetet har tvåhundra bokstäver, 1992 Landskapets långsamma förändringar, 1992 En kakelsättares eftermiddag,1991 [E, G, F, I, P, D, Du] Förberedelser för vintersäsongen, 1990 [G, I, S] Problemformuleringsprivilegiet, 1989 Det sällsamma djuret från norr, 1989 [G, I, F, S, P] Spegelskärvor, 1988 Fyra poeter, 1988 Samlade berättelser, 1987 (short stories) Bernard Foys tredje rockad, 1986 [D, N, G, F, I, S, P, H] Frihet och fruktan (med ), 1985 Bilderna på Solstadens murar, 1985 [G] Stunder vid ett trädgårdsbord, 1984 Sprickorna i muren, 1984 Fåglarna, 1984 Sorgemusik för frimurare, 1983 [G, F, I] ] Världens tystnad före Bach, 1982 Ur bild i bild, 1982 För liberalismen, 1981 [D] Berättelser om lyckliga människor, 1981 [G, F, I, S] Afrikanskt försök, 1980 Artesiska brunnar cartesianska drömmar, 1980 Konfrontationer, 1979 I mikroskopet, 1979 [G] Kinesisk höst, 1978 En biodlares död, 1978 [G, F, E, I, S, Fi, N, D, H, P, Gr, J] Språk och lögn, 1978 [G] Tennisspelarna, 1977 [G, F, E, I, S] Sonetter, 1977 Den lilla världen, 1977 [G] Strandhugg i svensk poesi, 1976 [E] Sigismund, 1976 [G, E] Världsdelar,1975 Familjefesten, 1975 [G, F, I] Den onödiga samtiden (med Jan Myrdal), 1974 [G] Yllet, 1973 Varma rum och kalla, 1972 Herr Gustafsson själv, 1971 [G] Kärleksförklaring till en sefardisk dam, 1970 Utopier, 1969 Konsten att segla med drakar, 1969 Bröderna Wright uppsöker Kitty Hawk och andra dikter, 1968 Förberedelser till flykt och andra berättelser, 1967 [G, F] En privatmansdikter, 1967 En resa till jordens medelpunkt och andra dikter, 1966 Den egentliga berättelsen om Herr Arenander, 1966 [G, I, D, F, P, Du] En förmiddag i Sverige, 1963 Följeslagarna, 1962 Ballongfararna, 1962 Nio brev om romanen (med Lars Bäckström), 1961 Bröderna, 1960 Poeten Brumbergs sista dagar och död, 1959 Vägvila, 1957

DRAMA Die nächtliche Huldigung. Stockholm, Zürich, Frankfurt, Berlin 1969 [G, E]

TRANSLATIONS Christopher Middleton. I det dolda huset (from English), 1988 Rainer Maria Rilke. Sonetterna till Orfeus (from German), 1987 Eugene Guillevic. Bröd och stenar (from French),1985 Michael KrÜger. I förnuftets dagsljus (from German), 1985

CRITICISM Monthly cronicles and numerous literary reviews in Bonniers Litterära Magasin (Stockholm), 1960-1972 WEEKLY Book Reviews in Expressen (Stockholm), 1960-1979 MONTHLY Book Reviews in Svenska Dagbladet, 1980 - Total approx. 600

CRITICISM: Collections in Book-Form De andras närvaro, 1995 Bilderna på solstadens murar, Stockholm, 1985 [G] Stunder vid ett trädgårdsbord, Stockholm: Alba, 1984 Kommentarer, 1972 Utopier, Stockholm, 1969 [G]

PHILOSOPHY: Articles "Nichts" Die Welt der Enzyklopedie. Herausgegeben von Hans-Magnus Enzensberger. Berlin: Eichborn 2001 "Alexander Bryan Johnson (1786 -1867)." In: Dascal, Gerhardus, Lorenz, Meggle, eds. Sprachphilosophie: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, Vol. I. Berlin & New York: De Gruyter, 1992 "Dr. Nietzsche's Office Hours are Between 10 and 12 A.M." In: R. C. Solomon & K. Higgins, eds. Reading Nietzsche. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988 "Tommaso Campanella: Der Sonnenstaat (1623)." In: K. L .Berghahn & H. U. Seeber, eds. Literarische Utopien von Morus bis zur Gegenwart. Berlin: Atheneum, 1983 "Negation als Spiegel .Utopie aus epistemologischer Sicht." In: V. Vosskamp, ed. Utopieforschung, Vol 1. Stuttgart, 1982 "Leibniz' Universalsprache als Wissenschaftsutopie ." In: V. Vosskamp, ed. Utopieforschung, Vol 2. Stuttgart, 1982 "On the Well-Known, Particular Objects" ("Om de välbekanta,enskilda föremålen"). Filosofisk Tidskrift, No. 4, Vol. 2 (December 1981) "Grammatik, Logik, Realität ." In: Höllerer, ed. Sprache im technischen Zeitalter, (Berlin) Vol. 57 (Januari-Mars 1976) "On the Existence of Moral Values" ("On moraliska värdens existens"). Häften för kritiska studier (Stockholm), Vol. I , 1970 "A Note on the Concepts of 'Verbal Significance' and 'Sensible Significance' in Alexander Bryan Johnson's Treatise on Language ." In: Todd & Blackwood, eds. Language and Value. New York & London: Greenwood, 1969 "Some Views on the Semantic Analysis of Sentences in Fiction ("Några synpunkter på den semantiska analysen av diktade satser"). In: Henschen-Dahlquist, Anders Wedberg, et al., eds. Sanning Dikt Tro. Stockholm: Bonniers, 1968

PHILOSOPHY: Books De andras närvaro.Estetiska essäer (The Presence of the Other: Essays in Esthetics). Stockholm, 1995 Landskapets långsamma förändringar (The Slow Transformations of the Landscape: Studies in the History of Ideas), 1992 Problemformuleringsprivilegiet: Samhällsfilosofiska studier (The Privilege to Formulate the Problem: Studies in Political Philosophy). Stockholm: Norstedts, 1989 Språk och lögn: En essä om språkfilosofisk extremism i det Nittonde århundradet (Language and Lie: An Essay on Extremism in the Philosophy of Language in the Nineteenth Century). Doctoral Dissertation, Uppsala, 1978. Stockholm: Norstedts, 1978 -Revised German Edition: Sprache und L ge: Drei Sprachphilosophische Extremisten -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Alexander Bryan Johnson, Fritz Mauthner. MÜnchen: Carl Hanser, 1980 -Paperback ed., Fischer 5405. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1982

GERMANIC STUDIES: Articles "über Bellmans Grösse." International Bellman Seminar (Proceedings). Rendsburg: 1995 "The Utopia of the Moment: The Poetry of Tomas Tranströmer." World Literature Today. (Autumn 1990) "Carl von Linné und seine Nemesis Divina in philosophischer Sicht." In: Wolf Lepenies and Lars Gustafsson, eds. Carl von Linné "Nemesis Divina." München: Hanser, 1981 Strindberg as a Forerunner to Scandinavian Modernism. In: J. Weinstock & R. T. Rovinsky, eds. The Hero in Scandinavian Literature.From Peer Gynt to the Present. Austin, TX: The Germanic Languages Symposia Series, 1972

GERMANIC STUDIES: Books Strandhugg i Svensk Poesi. Stockholm: 1977 =Forays into Swedish Poetry. Austin, TX: Univ. of Texas Press, 1980 The Public Dialogue in Sweden. Stockholm: Norstedts, 1964

Invited Lectures (Selection) Poetry Reading. The Library of Congress, Washington , DC, November 1994 Poetry Reading. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, December 1989 On Artistic Creativity and Technological Creativity. The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, on the occasion of its Fiftieth Anniversary, 1994 The City Utopia. Architecture Section of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, Stockholm, 1994 On Connectedness. Colloqium Series of the Department of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1994 On the Borders of Creativity. Seminar Den nya svenska modellen, Swedish Employer's Association, 1991 Freud and the Beginnings of Modernism. Opening Speech at the Memorial Seminar Celebrating Sigmund Freud, Swedish Psychoanalytic Society, Stockholm, 1989 The Historian of Literature from the Writer's Perspective. Opening Speech, Deutsche Germanistenverband, Aachen , Oktober 1982 The Philosophy of Alexander Bryan Johnson, The Royal Academy of Uppsala, 1979 On Particular Objects. Colloquium Series, Philosophy Department, Bielefeld University, 1979 Grammatik, Logik, Realität. German Society for Semantics, Berlin, 1976

Activities at the University of Texas Appointment History Adjunct Professor, UT, 1981- Visiting Writer, UT Department of Germanic Languages, Fall, 1979 Visiting Thord Gray Professor UT, Spring, 1974

Courses taught since 1990 Fall 1990 TC 659 A : Meaning and Truth in the Representational Arts PHL 385: The Age of Reason Spring 1991 TC 659 B: The Age of Reason Spring 1992 TC 659: The Creative Impulse SCA 358: A History of Swedish Poetry GER 386: A History of Swedish Poetry (Graduate) Spring 1993 TC 659B: Memory in Philosophy and Literature PHL 385: Meaning and Truth in the Representational Arts SWE 312L: Second.Year Swedish II Spring 1994 PHL 375M: Memory,Time and Liberty(Bergson's Philosophy) TC659B: The Creative Impulse SCA358: Modern Swedish Drama Spring 1995 PHL 375M: God as a Philosophical Problem TC 659B: What is a Poem ? SCA358: The Swedish Post-War Novel Spring 1996 PHL375M: Man as a Philosophical Problem TC357: What is a Poem?

Supervision of Plan II Honors Thesis: (TC660H) (completed) Max Ward Sweden's August Strindberg: A Universalist for the Modern Period. Spring 1995. William W.Brookshire III. Gunnar Mascoll Silfverstolpe: A Poet of the Lost Swedish Bourgeoisie. Spring 1994 Harry Louis Roddy, Jr. The Modern Long Lyric Poem: A Short History of its Development and its Incorporation into German Verse. Fall 1993 Jaqueline C.Trimier. Homing Grove Revisited. Spring 1991 Brent Caldwell. Consumer Capitalism and Material Human Rights. Spring 1992 Tulley R.Florey. IV AIDS, Drug Testing and the Fourth Amendment. Spring 1992 Erin Lyn Emery. The Middle Room: Conversation and Space in the Example of the French Salon. Spring 1992 Andrew C.Koehl. Heart, Mind and Knowledge. Spring 1990 Marshal Mayes Searcy. Privacy for an Audience;The Creation of Private Life During the French Enlightenment. Spring 1990 Vivian Norris. The Popularity and Development of Existential Philosophy Post-War II. Spring 1987 Marnie Binfield. Poetry Collection+Essay

Public Service Board, Stockholm City University, 1995- Konsistorieledamot,Uppsala Universitet (Member of the Board of Regents, Uppsala University), 1994- Executive Committe of The International Parliament of Writers, Strassbourg, 1994- (with Jaques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, Breiten Breitenbach, and Simon Rushdie) Advisory Board of Poetry International, Rotterdam Sekreterare i Utbildningsministerns Hässelbygrupp (Secretary of the Hässelby Development Group of The Swedish Ministry of Education and Science), 1993-1994 Bibelkommissionens referensgrupp (Advisory Board of the Swedish Bible Commission), 1980-1983 Ledamot av Europarådets kulturpolitiska expertgrupp (Member of the Advisory Group for Cultural Policy of the European Council), 198 -1982 Upphovsrättsutredningen (The Copyright Law Commission of the Swedish Parliament), 1979-1982 Humanistiska Fakultetsberedningen.(Governmental Advisory Board for the Swedish Colleges of Liberal Arts ), 1974-1978 Statens filmgranskningsråd (The Appeals Board of the Swedish Film Censoring Agency), 1961-1965 Sekreterare Västerås Stads Kulturråds Nämnd (Secretary on the Advisory Board of Culture of the City of Västerås), 1960-1965

Corporate Service Member of the Board of Directors, Brindfors Holdings, Stockholm, 1988-1992 Member of the Board Directors of the Foundation for NewspaperSvenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, 1989 -

Professional Associations PEN International,Sweden Swedish Writer's Union The Author's Guild of America The Philosophy of Time Society

MISCELLANEOUS Television: Darwin,Nietzsche, Freud. Three Programs for Swedish Television, Program 2, 1979 The Philosophers. Six Programs for Swedish Television, Program 3, 1989-1990 (with Paul Woodruff, Robert Solomon, and Betty Sue Flowers)

International Symposions arranged Carolus Linnaeus. University of Texas, 1980. With John Weinstock and Wolf Lepenies The Creative Impulse. For the Swedish Ministry of Science and Education. Hässelby Castle, 1993. With Susan Howard The Creative Impulse. University of Texas at Austin, 1993. With Susan Howard and the Right Hon. Per Unckel Science and the Powers. For the Swedish Ministry of Science and Education. Hässelby Castle, 1994. Together with Susan Howard and the Right Hon. Per Unckel Information Technology and the Future of Media. For The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering. Forsmark, 1994. Together with professor Arne Engström, IVA

Art Exhibitions Watercolors. Gallery Händer, Stockholm, 1989 Computer Graphics. Gallery Händer, Stockholm, 1991 Computer Graphics. Gallery Kronan, Landskrona, 1995

Other Made it to the New York Times Crossword Puzzle, March 28th 1996

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